It is an ambitious, multibillion-dollar project that could transform trade in this region and knit together Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, eastern Congo and southern Sudan as never before.
The bombing in Bali, American calls for an end to Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq and North Korea's acknowledgment that it has been trying to build nuclear weapons have transformed trade talks into a war council.
Elected leader of the 100,000-strong Metalworkers' Union in 1975, he transformed trade union activism in Brazil by turning what had mostly been government-friendly organisations into a powerful independent movement.
The company is seeking to transform its trading business into a joint venture with a partner.
One is the steady emergence of an industrial region so huge as to transform global trading patterns and investment flows.
This could transform institutional trading.Irresistible forcesPre-dating even the new technologies, there is a long-run trend favouring fewer exchanges.
Therefore, selection that acts on chemotactic performance could transform performance trade-offs into fitness trade-offs, which are known to have direct consequences for the evolution of diversity (Donaldson and Matasci et al., 2008; Kussell and Leibler, 2005; Haccou and Iwasa, 1995; Shoval et al., 2012).
Mr Obama, as he was widely expected to do, did announce some easing of export controls on hi-tech goods to India, which will help in the defence and space industries, but it will not transform the trade relationship.
"This is a great project that has the potential to transform international trade and bring significant economic and social benefits to Nicaragua, their neighbours and Latin America," the company spokesman, Ronald Maclean-Abaroa, said on the group's website.
The president of China has flown into Islamabad to finalise a multi-billion dollar investment programme that Pakistan is banking on to fix crippling electricity shortages and transform global trade routes.
